Fresh, mouth-watering and sweet
The well-known Danish summer scent of elderflower, with a good full taste.
The aftertaste is long, with a solid base of light bitters, from the elderflowers.
The sweetness is on the lower end, but with a distinct honey taste.
Serve chilled as an aperitif, or steaming hot from small mugs. Enjoy the elder mead cold with e.g. vanilla ice cream and fresh strawberries dipped in chocolate.
This is the brewer’s choice when offering a welcome aperitif, a cold drink in the summer heat or as a substitute for Christmas mulled wine
Ingredients: Water, Danish honey, elderflower, yeast. Guidance 15% alcohol
Below you can read the full description of the mead and get serving suggestions.
Description
Elder mead
Our elderberry mead is the Danish summer in a bottle.
Elderberry mead is a fresh, mouth-watering and sweet mead, both in taste and aroma the elderflower is very distinct and is clearly its dominant character. Although it is a sweet mead, it is finely balanced by fresh and fruity acidity and the pleasant perfume of the elderflower.
The well-known summer scent of elderflower, with a rich taste of honey and elder.
The aftertaste is long, with a solid base of light bitter substances.
We use a mixture of spring and summer honey, from our local area. The mead ferments with an appropriate amount of elderflower, which also makes this perfect dessert wine.
Serving suggestions
The mouth-watering freshness of the mead makes it an excellent mead for other than desserts, despite its sweetness. In the savory kitchen, marinated herring should be particularly emphasized, it needs salty dishes with very sweet elements, so therefore the traditional Danish herring plate is a fantastic combination for the mead.
For cheese, it does not have the fullness to carry very strong cheeses, but harmonizes well with lighter cheeses, such as West Sea cheese, fresh cheese, goat’s cheese and triple cream cheeses (such as brillat-savarin).
For desserts, it is again best combined with fresh desserts such as plum, apple or berry desserts and of course desserts that use elderflower.
Try it chilled as an aperitif, or steaming hot from small mugs. Enjoy the elder mead cold with e.g. vanilla ice cream and fresh strawberries dipped in chocolate.
It is also an exciting mead to use in drinks, e.g. a welcome drink. See suggestions for recipes on this page.
Glass
Elderberry works best in a glass that limits its sweetness and accentuates its floral aroma, champagne flutes or traditional white wine/riesling glasses are best for it.
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